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Gen Z vs Millennial ideas of success

Damn, boomers idea of well off was anchored a while ago at six figs while millennials and Gen Xs idea of a rich guy is like a dentist (we're right).
Gen z absolutely brain melted by phone lies though

The main thing I took away from Moby Dick is "right whale? More like wrong whale!" Those are garbage whales with very little oil compared to the perfect and wonderful sperm whale.

I hope you don't have to translate "it wasn't a dream" because that's not easy

"Mr Goon the popular understanding of your name has changed away from thug"
"Oh thank goodness! What does it mean now?"

Commuting from my home in "Place-with-white-mountains" to "place-on-the-shore" because the school "at-the-mouth-of-the-river-with-oak-trees" makes it to expensive to live there

Besides dads wondering if they did 200 episodes of a cartoon without dropping a name for this guy (it's Ted Shackleford)

The Curious George wiki refers to the man in the yellow hat as the deuteragonist, who is writing this wiki and who do they think the Curious George audience is?

Well for one thing this one thinks it's 2025

Virtue signaling is good I like knowing when people are virtuous

To paraphrase M Bison: For Christians it was the most important moment of the world, for Pontius Pilate it was Friday

Incredible this man is doing a Matt Breunig troll bit without the irony

Sorry it's less exciting than it probably sounded

This idea that people didn't exist if there isn't a lot of contemporary documentation, so you end up with most people springing into existence over the last few hundred years. It's a standard invented for Jesus for exactly this claim

This person envisions an incredible bit by Paul, starting a religion by simply claiming that the Messiah showed up and the empire killed him and no one remembers but him and some other people who are presumably also fictitious

Young Earth atheism is so funny

Picking a name that's barely not "we swear we're not papish fifth columnists" worked surprisingly well

A thing about the mechanization of agriculture is it happened after we had writing and photography (a bit).
I don't need an anthropologist to tell me what it was like, I have photos of my great great grandparents outside their sod house wearing clothes made from flour sacks

Congratulations to the service and entertainment industries on gaining a small, easily absorbed, number of workers over the next couple decades

You might say that such a thing would simply not be included but what about that book makes you think something extraneous would get cut?

When Ishmael goes to church the sermon is on Jonah which, pretty lucky. If the lectionary hadn't cooperated Moby Dick would have a chapter that's just a whaler turned preacher being exhausted by a long reading about a lady at jacobs well.

A sign for Pellegrino's Italian deli and garden center

Just went to my local Italian deli and garden center

Farmers are like cats, so certain of their self sufficiency while completely dependent on a million things they could perceive and recognize but choose not to

Fat Tony from the Simpsons asking Bart "and what if your family don't like bread? They like... Cigarettes."

The cartoon mobster did a better job of arguing against you than these guys and it's intentionally silly

We should all work together to make it illegal to be better at my job than me.

Lotta people on this website aren't listening to their dad about things they oughta. You should not shoplift even if you have incoherent grievances. Pay your taxes, it's part of being an adult. Take off your hat.

I make limoncello in the spring/summer and man I hope I'm drinking last years

Don't ever wear them and hey, infinite free shoes

Legitimately this website had me checking wage distribution data during the Biden years because damn.

At least Italian peasants living in Roman ruins were in the remains of a mighty empire. I live in the ruins of the Shakers.